Ceolacanth is a prehistoric fish. It was thought that it died 65 million years ago!! In the mid 1700’s it was found in Africa!! Since then more sightings have happened!!! WOW!!! Go to: http://www.dinofish.com/

100 million years ago cephalopods lived under water. They were related to cuttlefish and squid. prehistoric fish and shark with the rule of eat or be eaten. Then 135 million years later the BIG BANGhappened, there the Earth with no dinosaurs NOTHING! Except the surviving mammals than wooly mammoths, ancient people, than the Ice Age. Weather under 50, death cold!! next 500 years we still were  not here but, are our ancestors were. then came the Meglodon a HUGEprehistoric shark it could swallow an adult whole!!  There are lots of more prehistoric animals, if you want to find out more go towww.Discoverykids.com Or read Dinosaur books.

65 million years ago the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. It was a nice sunny day in the late cretaceous period, it started to get warm and dark than……. POW!! It stuck the BIG BANG!! Forest fires everywhere almost all life died. Cockroaches Dragonflies and burl mammals survived. When everything cleared up it started to acid rain and about 70% of the surviving mammals died.

THE END

Egypt

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancientegypt.htm

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Greece

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/

http://greece.mrdonn.org/

Rome

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/

http://www.rome.mrdonn.org/games.html

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancientrome.htm

China

http://www.china.mrdonn.org/

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/history/index.htm

Africa

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/index.htm

http://www.africa.mrdonn.org/

Maya

http://mayas.mrdonn.org/dailylife.html

http://www.mayankids.com/

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/southamerica/before1500/history/maya.htm

Aztec

http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/place.html

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/southamerica/before1500/history/aztec.htm

Vikings

http://www.theancientweb.com/explore/content.aspx?content_id=32

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/history/earlymiddle/vikings.htm

E=mc2

E=Energy

m=mass

c2=speed of light

I am on a break from my sessions in Toronto and I logged onto the computer. What a surprise…all these comments from my students. I forgot that today is Thursday and you are all in the computer lab.

You are making me feel quite homesick. I am looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday and to meeting Austin. I have another presentation to give tomorrow morning, some sessions to attend and then the drive back to Ottawa.

I haven’t had anytime in Toronto to go anywhere except in the hotel where I am staying. They are keeping us very busy. I can see from my window that it is a nice day and I am hoping to get out for a bit of a walk. I realized that I haven’t been outside since Tuesday evening, isn’t that weird?

Looking forward to being back at South March. Have a fun long weekend.

Mrs. Smith

Today was another travel day. We began the day with a bus tour around the city of Sao Paulo.

It is a huge city. Eighteen million people live in it, mostly in the city core. From what I could gather, most of the middle, upper middle class people live close to the downtown in apartment buildings while the outskirts are the poorer districts. We did see quite a few homeless people sleeping in parks and under overpasses. It really seems to be a place of have or have not.

We visited the Metropolitan Cathedral, a beautiful church built mostly with money from the coffee industry. Coffee is what drives Sao Paulo and you can see evidence of the influence of the coffee barons in the architecture and decoration on the buildings in the city.

We also had a stop at a soccer stadium. According to our guide, soccer is the “real” religion of Brazil and Sundays people worship this sport across the city.

The rest of the day was spent getting to Salvadore. We had a fair bit of time in the airport before taking our two hour flight here. It was a good time to continue to catch up on sleep. We were met at the airport by women in traditional dress who tied ribbon on our arms. This is a sign of friendship and welcome. The ribbon is tied with three knots. You are to make a wish and when the ribbon falls off your wish will be granted.

This is Ms. Deyenburg getting her ribbon at Salvador airport.

It was then a 40 minute or so drive to the hotel. We arrived just at sundown and so haven’t really got a sense yet of what this city of 8 million is like. I can tell you that I am on the 17th floor of a fairly luxurious hotel with a balcony over looking the ocean. There will be no swimming in the ocean here as the shore is very rocky and the surf very strong. I will go to sleep tonight with the sound of the waves.

(I just took this picture before posting this morning – beautiful view, isn’t it?)

The food here is fabulous. Last night we went to a traditional Brazilian bar b que. Each person has a coaster with a green side and a red side. Waiters come to the table with different cuts of bar b qued meat on long skewers. You get slices of what ever you want. As long as your coaster is green side up, the food keeps coming. I was very pleased with this. There was also a huge salad bar. We will not be starving here. Every meal has been an all you can eat buffet. To try to counter the effects of all this food, Mr. Toft and I hit the treadmills this evening. I will have to run a lot of miles to work off all that I have enjoyed.

Tomorrow we will begin work on our display to impress the judges and will have an opportunity to see a little of Salvadore. So far the only other country here is the Russian delegation. There will be 60 countries represented with 400 teachers. It is very overwhelming.

Not missing the cold… a lovely 30 degrees here today,

All the best

Mrs Smith